* Request addition to the Translator group:** Click on [[Special:myLanguage/Translator Account|Get a Translator Account]] in the sidebar** Click on the <menuchoice>Edit</menuchoice> icon [[Image:Userbase-edit.png|14px]] and enter your username, the language you want to translate for and whether you intend to translate off-line** Use <menuchoice>Save page</menuchoice> to save the information

{{Warning|1=Do not create a localized page variant manually (by entering pagename/langcode and trying to translate the original). This will mess up the translation system and no translation will be shown at all.}}

In this context, think of the word "Category" as a system word which therefore should not be translated. For example, <nowiki>[[Category:Administration]]</nowiki> would become <nowiki>[[Category:Administrasi/id]]</nowiki>

For consistency, UserBase has lists of approved translations of categories. Translation teams may find a similar list useful. Such tables can be seen at [{{UB}}/Translation_Help_Needed Translation Help Needed]. Please request help if you need it.

These take the form <nowiki>[[Special:myLanguage/Other page|link text]]</nowiki> The link should remain untranslated, whereas the link text should always be translated. If no link text is present, please add suitable (translated) link text.

{{Note|"myLanguage" will try to load the translated version of the link in the language you have set in your user preferences. If it fails to load it will just load the English original, so it is safe to use it for any internal link.}}

These generally consist of a header word "Information" and an editable information text. If the word "Information" is not recognizable in your language you may need a localized version of the template. Please ask if you need help with this.

Sometimes it may happen that you have translated a page, but the translation is marked as incomplete. Certain errors in the markup of the original page can cause this. The most common type of error is the appearance of unbalanced brackets or parentheses. The translation system requires that all opening brackets ('[', '{' or '(' ) have a matching closing bracket (']', '}' or ')' ) in the same translation unit, otherwise the translation is considered incomplete.

The same rule is not enforced by the wiki software, so it is easy for writers to miss those mistakes. If a bracket character is simply missing, just add it. However, sometimes the bracketed content extends over more than one translation unit, so that the matching closing bracket is in later unit. In this case you need to balance brackets in both units, but you can't simply add bracket characters without changing the meaning or formatting, so you must must comment out the added bracket character, like this